APPENDIX E CXLV 



OBJECT AND CONSTITUTION OF THE CLUB. 



The Botanical Club of Canada was organized by a committee of 

 section four of the Royal Society of Canada, at its meeting in Montreal, 

 May 29th, 1891. 



The object is to promote, by concerted local efforts and otherwise, 

 the exploration of the flora of every portion of British America, to 

 publish complete lists of the same in local papers as the work goes on, 

 to have these lists collected and carefully examined in order to arrive 

 at a correct knowledge of the precise character of our flora and its 

 geographieal distribution, and to carry on systematically seasonal 

 observations on botanical phenomena. 



The intention is to stimulate, with the least possible'paraphernalia 

 of constitution or rules, increased activity among botanists in each 

 locality, to create a corps of collecting botanists wherever there may 

 be few or none at present, to encourage the formation of field clubs, to 

 publish lists of local flora in the local press, to conduct from year to 

 year exact phenological observations, etc.; for which purposes the 

 secretaries for the provinces may appoint secretaries for counties 

 or districts, who will be expected, in like manner, to transmit the 

 same impetus to as many as possible in their more local spheres of 

 action. 



Members and secretaries, while carrying out plans of operation 

 which they may find to be promising of success in their particular 

 districts, will report as frequently as convenient to the officer under 

 whom they may be immediately acting. 



Before the end of January, at the latest, reports of the work done 

 within the various provinces during the year ended December the 

 31st previous, should be made by the secretaries for the provinces to 

 the general secretary, from which the annual report to the Royal 

 Society shall be principally compiled. By the first of January, 

 therefore, the annual reports of county secretaries and members 

 should be sent in to the secretaries of the province. 



To cover the expenses of official printing and postage, a nominal 

 fee of twenty-five cents per annum is expected for membership (or one 

 dollar for five years in advance, or five dollars for life membership). 

 Secretaries for the provinces, when remitting the amount of fees from 

 members to the general treasurer, are authorized to deduct the neces- 

 sary expenses for provincial office work, transmitting vouchers for 

 the same with the balance. 



The names of those reporting any kind of valuable botanical 

 work during the year will be published in the list of active members, 

 even should the payment of fees be forgotten. All payments are 



Proc. 1908. 10. 



